Buffy: Empty Places

[prillalar]

Eh. This didn't sit right with me. I was on board with the mutiny until Dawn told Buffy to get the hell out. That pretty much came out of nowhere.

I adored the Spike-Andrew interaction, but I so wanted Andrew to be there when Xander came home. Andrewsunrquitedloveissopure.

I don't have anything insightful to say, so I will proceed to my rant about the inscription.

The inscription is not Greek. It is Latin written in Greek characters. I kept getting distracted during that scene because I'd see "NON" and think, OK, Latin, and then see sigmas and lambdas in the lines below.

I don't think there's any way to get the gender "for her" from the Latin. This is the inscription as I was able to copy it down from my shaky freeze-frame:

Non tibi est. Ei sol(l)i tractare licet.

"It is not for you. He/she only is permitted to touch/handle/wield."

Both "ei" and "soli" are in the dative so the male and female forms are identical. Without any more context, there's no way to tell.

Except I guess the context is this is Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

I'm such a geek. Shun me.

Comments

[ethrosdemon.livejournal.com]

This is really funny. Tonight I was talking to this guy I know and I was all "why are there supposedly ancient greek inscriptions in this Spanish mission in Califorian?" and he was "It was latin." And I was "I thought it was greek characters. What? I couldn't read it on my tape anyway." And then I went on a whole diatribe about how Andrew is supposedly a demon raising expert, but he can't read greek? What? He can read demon languages and not greek?!

Thank you for getting on this. You are my hero.

[prillalar]

I think Andrew was just so deep in character as the Bad Cop he forgot to make the comment. So I made it for him. [insert many deep sighs over Andrew]

I am a hero! Maybe I could be a super hero. Or villain. I remember this one guy who showed up as a villain in one of the early New Warriors books -- Mathamaniac or something. His big power was that he would make people see infinity and then their eyes would glaze over. I'm sure I could have the same effect talking about Homer.